Chapter notes
CHAPTER 32
TANNING OR DYEING EXTRACTS; TANNINS
AND THEIR DERIVATIVES; DYES, PIGMENTS
AND OTHER COLOURING MATTER; PAINTS
AND VARNISHES; PUTTY AND OTHER MASTICS;
1. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds
(except those of heading 3203.00 or 32.04,
inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores
(heading 32.06), glass obtained from fused quartz
or other fused silica in the forms provided for in
heading 32.07, and also dyes and other colouring
matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale
of heading 32.12);
(b) Tannates or other tannin derivatives of products
of headings 29.36 to 29.39, 29.41 or 35.01 to
3504.00.00; or
(c) Mastics of asphalt or other bituminous mastics
(heading 2715.00).
2. Heading 32.04 includes mixtures of stabilised
diazonium salts and couplers for the production of
azo dyes.
3. Headings 3203.00, 32.04, 3205.00.00 and 32.06 apply
also to preparations based on colouring matter
(including, in the case of heading 32.06, colouring
pigments of heading 25.30 or Chapter 28, metal flakes
and metal powders), of a kind used for colouring any
material or used as ingredients in the manufacture of
colouring preparations. The headings do not apply, how-
ever, to pigments dispersed in non aqueous media, in
liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture
of paints, including enamels (heading 32.12), or to
other preparations of heading 32.07, 32.08, 32.09,
3210.00, 32.12, 32.13 or 32.15.
4. Heading 32.08 includes solutions (other than
collodions) consisting of any of the products specified
in headings 39.01 to 39.13 in volatile organic solvents
when the weight of the solvent exceeds 50% of the
weight of the solution.
5. The expression "colouring matter" in this Chapter does
not include products of a kind used as extenders in oil
paints, whether or not they are also suitable for
colouring distempers.
6. The expression "stamping foils" in heading 32.12
applies only to thin sheets of a kind used for printing
for example, book covers or hat bands, and consisting
of:
(a) Metallic powder (including powder of precious
metal) or pigment, agglomerated with glue,
gelatin or other binder; or
(b) Metal (including precious metal) or pigment,
deposited on a supporting sheet of any materi